A Study of Hamlet, Volume 110Longmans, Green, & Company, 1875 - 205 pages |
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... circumstances prevented my finishing the work , and delayed its publication . I hope I have succeeded in availing myself to some extent of the more important additions that have been made to Shakespearian criticism , especially as ...
... circumstances prevented my finishing the work , and delayed its publication . I hope I have succeeded in availing myself to some extent of the more important additions that have been made to Shakespearian criticism , especially as ...
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... circumstance of his condi- tion , which appeals to the sympathy of many readers of this tragedy - I mean the ... circumstances among which our lot is cast , we ought to assume a gloomy dignity of manner ; to shun this uncongenial ...
... circumstance of his condi- tion , which appeals to the sympathy of many readers of this tragedy - I mean the ... circumstances among which our lot is cast , we ought to assume a gloomy dignity of manner ; to shun this uncongenial ...
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... circumstances under which the spectre had appeared ; he binds all three to silence , and when they are gone , there is no vulgar outburst of triumph at the justification of his hatred for his uncle ; he speaks a few solemn words ending ...
... circumstances under which the spectre had appeared ; he binds all three to silence , and when they are gone , there is no vulgar outburst of triumph at the justification of his hatred for his uncle ; he speaks a few solemn words ending ...
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... circumstances and masterly touches of the poet combine together to produce such a vivid impression of the supernatural , as no effort of the painter or the mechanist could ever hope to accomplish . The very few words that Hamlet utters ...
... circumstances and masterly touches of the poet combine together to produce such a vivid impression of the supernatural , as no effort of the painter or the mechanist could ever hope to accomplish . The very few words that Hamlet utters ...
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... circumstances are completely changed . The most solemn charge that could be given to man - most solemn because it would seem that Nature's very laws had been set aside for the purpose of enjoining on him this sacred duty -had been given ...
... circumstances are completely changed . The most solemn charge that could be given to man - most solemn because it would seem that Nature's very laws had been set aside for the purpose of enjoining on him this sacred duty -had been given ...
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Page 45 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice; And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling.
Page 39 - tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? — To die, — to sleep...
Page 72 - Makes mouths at the invisible event; Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 18 - tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed ; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this ! But two months dead I nay, not so much, not two : So excellent a king ; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr : so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 40 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 18 - O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew ! " Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter...
Page 25 - Then goes he to the length of all his arm, And with his other hand thus o'er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it. Long...
Page 161 - At gaming, swearing ; or about some act That has no relish of salvation in't ; — • Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven ; And that his soul may be as damn'd and black As hell, whereto it goes.
Page 119 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Page 175 - They bear the mandate ; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery. Let it work; For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar...